Re: Problems installing OBSD 3.4 on IIsi

send to list, Nick, send to list...

-------- Original Message --------

sunder wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a Mac IIsi with 17Mb of RAM, and a Sonic 10BT/10B2/AUI network
> card.  It's currently running MacOS 7.5.

That card doesn't happen to include a FPU (Floating Point Unit, math
co-processor, whatever you want to call it), does it?

> I've set it to 1 bit video, 32 bit addressing, and disabled virtual memory
> as per the install doc. I then setup an AUX swap + an AUX usr+root
> partition and and then formatted usr+root with the mkfs program as per the
> documentation.
> 
> However, when I run the installer, it immediately crashes with System error
> 90.  I've also downloaded the 1.3 version of the installer from the
> snapshots utils directory, and it too crashes in the same place.
...
> Any ideas?

The installer requires an FPU (I have NO idea why).  The IIsi does not
include one standard.

Last I tried it (it *has* been a while...), OpenBSD wasn't working on
the IIsi, it panicked early in the boot process if I recall properly. 
I did the install by either prepping the drive on another machine and
moving it to the IIsi, or by using a NIC which had an optional (but
populated) FPU socket (and I think I used both processes).  I do have
to try it again...

Nick.
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